History
Our faculty was opened in 1992 with an associate degree program in nursing, which was converted to a bachelor's program in 1997. The Health Officer Department was opened in 2001. With the law that went into effect in May 2007, male students began to be accepted to nursing departments; the existing Nursing and Health Officer departments were merged. The Nutrition and Dietetics departments were opened in our faculty on 12/22/2008, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation on 01/19/2011, Health Management on 02/16/2011, and Social Work, Child Development, Emergency Aid and Disaster Management, Audiology, and Gerontology on 01/20/2016. Education is currently actively provided in the Nursing, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, and Social Work departments. With the decision of the Council of Ministers, it was decided to establish, close and change the names of institutes, faculties and colleges affiliated to some higher education institutions. In the Official Gazette dated December 7, 2016 and numbered 29911, it was decided to close Bülent Ecevit University Zonguldak Health College and establish the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Education
The nursing undergraduate program includes a one-year elective foreign language (English) preparatory education and/or a 4-year undergraduate education. Approximately 150 students enroll in the department each year. As of 2021, the number of students in the department is approximately 839. The Department of Nursing offers a Child Health and Diseases Nursing Master's and Doctorate program, a Surgical Diseases Nursing Master's and Doctorate program, and a Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing Master's program.The Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation covers a 4-year undergraduate education. An average of 60 students are enrolled in the department each year. As of 2021, the number of students in the department is 381. There is no postgraduate program opened in the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation. Our faculty has become stronger with the 3 faculty members hired in 2019 to the Department of Social Work. In the 2020-2021 Academic Year, this department, which covers a 4-year undergraduate education, continues its education and training services with 41 students.
The faculty members of the Departments of Health Management, Social Service, Child Development, Emergency Aid and Disaster Management, Audiology, and Gerontology are being formed and will begin accepting students as soon as possible. Our faculty, together with all its faculty members and administrative staff, strives to achieve the goals it has adopted in order to achieve excellence in education, training, and research activities.Our faculty has ten classrooms, two nursing skills and practice laboratories, two Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation laboratories, a computer laboratory, a library, a conference hall for 150 people, canteen areas, and volleyball-basketball and table tennis facilities. The fact that five of the clubs affiliated with the Health, Culture and Sports Department of our university are in our building allows our students to work in these clubs. In 2010, our faculty moved to its new building on the health campus, where Bülent Ecevit University Health Application and Research Center and faculties providing education in the field of health are located.
In order for our students to internalize the information they have acquired in theoretical courses, they participate in practices in institutions that provide preventive, curative and therapeutic services, accompanied by their teaching staff. These practices are carried out in various hospitals, workplaces, schools, rehabilitation centers and health centers determined according to the content of each course.